CURRENT MISSION

fusing science, art, politics.

ABOUT ME

Hi! i'm a great explorer and i'm mapping the places i get to see in a new fashion, one that hasn't been in use so far. i'm also caught in a timecapsule between the future and the past. i live in the now, sometimes even ahead, but a lot of my traits are ancient and not really common anymore.

i'm studying in the nature sciences and i enjoy to follow the patterns of art and music, history and philosophical topics.

i am an outgoing person and sometimes very direct in what i say and the way i act.

i am always longing for a nice acquaintance or a drink. the city is my home and i like to roam the streets and bars.

i enjoy backpacking and i live to see the new, the unwitnessed, the untouched. I travel not knowing where this journey leads to, and in the darkness, in some foreign country, I grasp the hand of my companions.

PHILOSOPHY

courage is superior to numbers.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

like to share my maps and meet people that are also charting their surroundings. we need to answer some important questions here: where do we go to? where do we come from? and why did we not just stay there ??

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm not going to be the guy pretending he is geeking off on CS. It's a means, and talking about it doesn't do the job as good as when you reflect on your own, silently. So take me more as the CS-amateur. If you want to philosophize about CS, I'll kick your ass in quantum-mechanics.

Interests

Back home again he uncorked the wine, let it breath, drank a few glasses of it and tried to think of something meaningful, but could not. And then, with a glass of Merlot, gulped down all the pills at once.

However, he had been burned. The capsules were not barbiturates, as represented. They were some kind of cheap psychedelics, of a type he had never dropped before, probably a mixture, and new on the market. Instead of quietly suffocating, Charles Freck began to hallucinate. He had to face the fact - considering how many of the capsules he had swallowed - that he was in for some trip...

-k. dick

• animals
• birds
• arts
• books
• fashion
• wine
• drinking
• flying
• clothing
• politics
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• cycling
• backpacking
• scuba diving
• cartography
• history
• science
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

i like electronic music. i read books from left to right.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

diving through narrow channels with upcoming tide in asia. bearspotting in romania. high-speed biking in zurich. sudden hugs.

Teach, Learn, Share

One day, when I was washing my dish after lunch, I couldn’t stand the boredom any longer, it was driving me mad and I couldn’t see an end to this. I told Gideon about my doubts, I told him I was planning to leave and expected him to feel somewhat the same and hoped that we might depart together. But Gideon told me different:
„The boredom is something you create!“
„huh?“ I went.
Gideon held on tightly to his dish and said „It is like you’re holding on to this dish and say „I hate this dish. I wish this dish wouldn’t be there. This dish is driving me crazy!“. But see, you’re the one who’s holding on to it. Let go of the dish“, he counselled.

The next day I let go of the boredom. I disallowed myself from making myself feel bad. I sat on the small bamboo-balcony above the valley for hours, not focussing on the mountains in the distance, the greyish monsoon-clouds, not focusing on the birds flying, not focusing on the trees moving with animals and monkeys in them. I listened to the sounds, but didn’t record them as usual, they passed me, and I passed the sounds. I overcame time, and perception, and I overcame the boredom and the restlessness. After one week in the monastery, a period of time that seemed in the beginning like melting plastic, highly viscous, dropping by endlessly and without any real advancement, i returned to the city and checked into the hostel where a friendly thai had stored my belongings. I looked at my alienated possessions – books, clothes, travel-notes, presents from friends, and felt relieved.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Denmark, France, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Switzerland

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